A refugee returns to his homeland to open Ho Chi Minh City’s first Michelin-starred restaurant.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

Under Hanoi’s medieval citadel sits a secret military headquarters from the final years of the Vietnam War.

A cityscape of burial tombs that you can easily lose yourself in.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

Out of all the statues of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, this one is the tallest and the most impressive.

This former monastery in Vietnam now houses a chocolate shop and museum filled with centuries-old taxidermy specimens.

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

An ornate tomb pays tribute to one of the most influential and cherished military leaders in Vietnam's history.

Shoes and revealing shirts are not allowed inside this giant Vietnamese Christ.

Nearly three tons of weapons from the Vietnam War still remain in this small, hidden museum.

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

A sculpture park that takes the use of clay to a whole new level.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

One of the oldest temples in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to a deified Chinese military leader.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.